Acting

Joe Ohara

Born

1903-12-10 (122)

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 13 titles

Tōkyō no josei poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tōkyō no josei

1960

Gamera vs. Barugon poster
6.4

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.

Gamera vs. Barugon

1966

Their Legacy poster
10.0

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his firm into 500,000 yen for each daughter as a wedding dowry. He considers them all old enough to handle the money, and gives them a free hand to use it as they wish.

Their Legacy

1962

Back Stairways poster
NR

A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his sister. He is even more surprised when he is offered a million yen to play this apparently harmless role. Actually, it is anything but harmless. Both the customer and his sister are involved in a jewel robbery in which they have double-crossed two of their accomplices who are now out of prison and thirsting for revenge.

Back Stairways

1965

Two Enemy Women Gamblers poster
10.0

Twelfth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Two Enemy Women Gamblers

1969

The Woman Champion poster
10.0

Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

The Woman Champion

1968

Machi no uwasa mo sanjûgo nichi poster
NR

A bride suddenly disappears from the wedding venue, and her boyfriend begins searching for her. Things get hectic around the two of them.

Machi no uwasa mo sanjûgo nichi

1960

Princess and I poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Princess and I

1962

Ocean Floor Crime #1 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ocean Floor Crime #1

1964

Bury Me Deep poster
8.0

A suspense directed by Umetsugu Inoue, starring Ayako Wakao, depicting the intense lust created by the passion of a writhing woman.

Bury Me Deep

1963

No artwork available
NR

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Eriko" by Yukio Hashi.

Eriko

1962

Sutekina 16-sai poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Sutekina 16-sai

1962

Shin fūfu dokuhon ren'ai-byō kanja poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

Shin fūfu dokuhon ren'ai-byō kanja

1961

1950s · 26 titles

Shōbushi to sono musume poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shōbushi to sono musume

1959

Tokai toiu minato poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tokai toiu minato

1958

Ittōsai wa sebangō 6 poster
NR

Ittōsai, who trained in the Itto-ryu style deep in the mountains of Nara, joins a professional baseball team.

Ittōsai wa sebangō 6

1959

Inhibited Love poster
NR

Chieko Izumi is a reporter for the magazine "Weekly Japanese Women". She had come to Tokyo to stay with her aunt in order to escape her stubborn grandmother in her hometown in Kyushu, who was trying to force her to marry Komori, the local ringleader.

Inhibited Love

1955

Koi o sutta onna poster
NR

The case of a millionaire’s daughter who goes missing over a stolen necklace belonging to a foreign woman.

Koi o sutta onna

1958

Hanayome no tameiki poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hanayome no tameiki

1956

Where Might is Right poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Where Might is Right

1955

Koi no yakyūken: Kōiu guai ni shiyashi yanse poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Koi no yakyūken: Kōiu guai ni shiyashi yanse

1955

Rakka no mon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rakka no mon

1954

Atarashiki ten poster
NR

A man and a woman whose love is forbidden due to a feud between their parents resolve to die together and head to the island of Sado.

Atarashiki ten

1954

Kimi machifune poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kimi machifune

1954

Tsuki no kōdōkan poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tsuki no kōdōkan

1956

No artwork available
NR

A romantic action drama set in early Meiji-era Hokkaido, centered on a passionate, justice-seeking newspaper reporter who takes on an official seeking to line his own pockets, alongside an ill-fated brother and sister harboring a desire for revenge.

Eki basha osowaru

1957

Shinzōyaburi no oka poster
NR

A moving story depicting the spirit of a young marathon runner who set a new world record in Boston, encouraged by the love of his family, a young woman’s prayers, and warm friendship.

Shinzōyaburi no oka

1954

Zoku bakurō ichidai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zoku bakurō ichidai

1952

The Telephone Rings in the Evening poster
NR

In a peaceful town near the Seto Inland Sea, a threatening letter arrives along with the ringing of a telephone... A thriller-comedy that sets this stagnant town ablaze.

The Telephone Rings in the Evening

1959

Night Butterflies poster
6.5

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

Night Butterflies

1957

Tokoharu jamono poster
NR

Two barbers have fallen for each other, but their fathers are both stubborn, and, on top of that, they’re old rivals from the past.

Tokoharu jamono

1953

Tenraku no shishū poster
NR

The story of a young police officer who risks his career to save the soul of a woman who curses societal evils and chooses the path of self-destruction.

Tenraku no shishū

1950

Kyūjō hiroba poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kyūjō hiroba

1951

Chikaiteshi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chikaiteshi

1957

Nenneko Shain poster
NR

A handsome and pure-hearted employee who thought he was single actually has a secret child. His girlfriend, a beautiful secretary, and the high-maintenance female manager suddenly panic, and the whole company is in an uproar.

Nenneko Shain

1956

Advance Patrol poster
6.0

In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find out the enemy's situation...

Advance Patrol

1957

Sorrow Is Only for Women poster
8.0

The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.

Sorrow Is Only for Women

1958

A Grain of Wheat poster
NR

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who watch over them. Co-written by newcomer Shigeki Chiba and Kaneto Shindo, the film was directed by Kozaburo Yoshimura.

A Grain of Wheat

1958

Chūzaisho nikki poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chūzaisho nikki

1957

1930s · 5 titles